Sri Muniraj was left in charge of the Haidakhan Samaj when Babaji took Samadhi in 1984. He faithfully maintained this leadership until last year, 2012, when he took Samadhi of his own. I painted this of him in Herakhan during this Spring’s Navaratri. The painting resides currently in the collection of Uday and Retu Chatterjee of Deradhun, India.

MARKUS received his formal art training at the Rhode Island School of Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His mentors were the OP ART painter Julian Stanczak in Cleveland, and ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST Stephen Greene who painted in New York and taught in Philadelphia. What he gleaned in his own work from these two relationships was a keen colorist emphasis and an insistence on sacred content.